THe entire list of abilities for both gaxe and wh were doing more damage than it needed to so it got taken down to other peoples levels. Which wernt even remotely close to the same damage.
Musket get close? Then try to aim with bigger accuracy bloom than max bloom BB? Are you high?
New mechanic. Now weapon in fact does require skill. So learn and master it. Im sure with one of next patches weapon will get buffs. Master it now and enjoy real skill later.
What skill? The rng factor is much bigger than actual skill in reality
Skill to predict target movment and wait for him to run into your crosshair.
You mean predict future 3-5 second ahead because you cannot move your mouse at all, just to deal mediocre amount of damage with 300/150?
Why other range weapon prediction sounds way easier with that logic?
2sec. You need to know where enemy will be in next 2sec. And i call it skill now.
Other weapons do not have hitscan and are not effetive on 100m range.
Bruh you didn’t count the whole preparation time, it’s not like you can instantly know the target direction when you found one
Not even pro player capable of doing that
Hitscan on 100m on player with decent gear is no more than 2k hit (with BIS musket setup).
If player has good gear or BIS it will go in range of 1k dmg.
RNG is skill? General population on earth must be so unskilled then when playing lottery xD
You take your spot, you find enemy you want to shot, you predict his moment and you shot 2.5sec later. Sounds like skill doesnt it?
0,5 second preparation in a open spot what? Not to mention the inability to move your mouse for 2 second meaning you have to stay static while having sensitivity of over 70 to instantly move your cursor to predict said player
All of that just to land a mediocre damage, while doing the exact same thing for the next 5-10 shot
Seriously go ask any known pro musket…or even other fps player about it.
Most likely they will laugh at your logic man no offense
Say guy that from what I see mains FS and advocate for all the bufs for it where you have to predict like 0.25 in the future to compensate enemy movement. Or just smash him with huge AOE. Not mentioning that you can compensate enemy player movement anytime without loosing accuracy. While with proposed musket change you have to stand still for 4 sec (with reload) staring at exactly one point (you cannot move mouse) to have 50/50 chance that you will hit target - otherwise its 0% chance xD
How on earth you can advocate that this is good change that will really on skill xD
Mate its not fps game. Its mmorpg 
See, you were playing wrong game all that time.
Mate it’s not about the game genre, but your bs prediction logic. Clearly you barely use your braincell while typing those sentence
Well… and some see, that these changes are for the better of the game and accept it - even if it means, that they will lose damage. I personally would wish we someday get to a point where the meta is, that there is no meta but everything is on the same level without some builds or weapons being OP.
Remember that this massive changes is because mortal empowerment + musket powder burn spike + OPR.
A single weapon got demolished in PvE and PvP because of single modes
Sure. What else i can advice you? Get gut!
Naw i already that damn gut, but im not consider myself as a terminator with 0,5 second of inhuman reflexes
and enemy can see where are you aiming at and analize this info in about half second…
See how? If you are streaming and he is sniping you, sure. But there is no other way to tell where musket plays is aiming mate 
And if you are a streamer add 5sec delay - job done.